Sometimes it seems like certain themes just appear within a week, and maybe this is Hypocrisy Week, after all. There’s all this “don’t do as I do, do as I say” stuff going on…
First we have the Al Gore, Secular Saint as Mine-Owning energy gulper, now there’s the Prince of Wales seeking to ban yer Big Macs while profiting from a concoction that is somewhat less “healthy”. (Jules Crittenden has more.)
Then we have the NY Times, which has been discussing the immorality of “Bush’s increasingly unpopular war” and proclaiming that we have no business whipping a Democratic government on Iraq for so long that the paper has almost become a parody of itself. Now it is sighing and asking for “more outside help” because…are you ready? “…without more outside help, there is little hope for building a peaceful democracy in…Kosovo.”
Kosovo? That’s still going on? Is it a Quagmire? Ohhhh that’s right…it can’t be a Quagmire! It’s a Clinton/UN production! Let’s get this show on the road then, and give them more time (8 years is not enough) to get Democracy right, over there!
James Taranto had a little fun with that, yesterday
This is the problem with moralizing…it’s so easy to get hoisted up on one’s own petard. It happens. Churchmen get nailed for it whether they are clerics of a Mono-Theistic church or a Secular Environmental/Organic Food one.
Or, you know, a blogging one.
